Scenario 16-2
Imagine that two oil companies, Big Petro Inc. and Gargantuan Gas, own adjacent oil fields. Under the fields is a common pool of oil worth $48 million. Drilling a well to recover oil costs $2 million per well. If each company drills one well, each will get half of the oil and earn a $22 million profit ($24 million in revenue - $2 million in costs) . Assume that having X percent of the total wells means that a company will collect X percent of the total revenue.
-Refer to Scenario 16-2.Gargantuan Gas's dominant strategy would lead to what sort of well-drilling behavior?
A) Gargantuan Gas will never drill a second well.
B) Gargantuan Gas will always drill a second well.
C) Gargantuan Gas will drill a second well only if Big Petro Inc.drills a well.
D) Gargantuan Gas will drill a second well only if Big Petro Inc.does not drill a well.
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